Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report on the Trump campaign will be released Thursday, the Justice Department announced Monday. Like all public reports, the document will be free to read.

That hasn’t stopped people from trying to sell Mueller report books on Amazon for months.

Amazon’s book listings are an SEO cesspool where grifters try to peddle ebooks on every trending topic. In recent months, self-published works on the anti-vaccination and QAnon conspiracy theories have soared in Amazon’s ratings. So as readers clamored to see the full Mueller report, publishing houses and self-published authors rushed to sell books on the still-unpublished document.

Researchers have a new explanation for why those endless days of childhood seemed to last so much longer than they do now — physics. According to the theory, the apparent temporal discrepancy can be blamed on the ever-slowing speed at which images are obtained and processed by the human brain as the body ages.Child Development News — ScienceDaily

The City, a new not-for-profit digital news venture that’s vowed to hold city officials accountable, has hit a few bumps in the road, including the sudden departure of its onetime top business executive after just two months on the job, The Post has just learned. Kai Falkenberg, a lawyer who was a former top aide…Media | New York Post

Last week we told you about an awesome sale that shaved $ 70 off the Sony WH1000XM3 Bluetooth Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones if you bought refurbs. Pretty much everyone at this point knows that they’re the best Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones on the planet by a wide margin, so it was a fantastic way to save some money on them since they’re normally so pricey at $ 350. The deal sold out very quickly just like we said it would, but then something happened that we definitely didn’t expect: they popped again up early this morning, and they’re still back in stock right now! You had definitely better hurry if you want a pair because they’re going to sell out again very quickly. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if they’re gone again within a few hours.

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After running around outside in nearly every weather element that could happen over the course of winter during New York Fashion Week, I think it’s safe to say that I’m ready as hell for spring to get here. My dear and trusty arsenal of wool coats, you’ve kept me warm and cozy for the past three …

LIKE A VIRGIL: Virgil Abloh’s first designs for Louis Vuitton have yet to hit the French luxury giant’s boutique network, but they’re already selling up a storm.
A pop-up in Tokyo that opened last week raked in 30 percent more in the first 48 hours than Vuitton’s collaborative collection with Supreme in 2018, Vuitton chief executive officer Michael Burke told WWD.
He attributed the success to “pure unadulterated desire,” citing particularly strong demand for tailored ready-to-wear, mini trunks in white leather and transparent and iridescent weekend bags.
“It was merchandised as a full collection,” he said, also noting that the rush came despite no dedicated marketing campaign, advertising or gifting. About 1,000 people queued up in the Japanese capital to be among the first to buy.
The Supreme collaboration, seen as a watershed moment for streetwear, sold exclusively last June through eight pop-ups in Paris, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul and Sydney.
Vuitton opted for a similar stealth approach for Abloh’s debut spring 2019 collection, first hosting pop-up stores in London and Shanghai last October. One in New York also opened last week, with the first day an invitation-only event for 200 people.
Crowned WWD’s Newsmaker of the Year last year, Abloh went from

As of yesterday, we’re two months away from the much-anticipated theatrical release of Captain Marvel. And judging by the results of advance ticket sales which got under way this week, the film is no doubt going to break records and draw in massive crowds.

Monday marked the first day of presales for the movie, which by some accounts is headed for a more than $ 100 million opening and will introduce fans to the story of Carol Danvers as the 21st addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And speaking of the MCU, according to online ticket site Fandango, the advance ticket sales for Captain Marvel are already beating the comparable first 24-hour sales of films like Captain America: Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

For more than a decade now, we’ve watched Michelle Obama grow, stretch, and transform, becoming who she is today.

Black women, in particular, have observed her with great interest and great love. We have prayed for, cried for, and consistently rooted for her as she evolved from a deeply reluctant public figure into a global icon whose much-anticipated memoir, Becoming, is getting rock-star treatment.

We have revered and emulated her, seeing in her prominent service to our nation new possibilities for making a powerful impact of our own.

Women of color candidates increased by nearly 75% since 2012, according to a report from the Reflective Democracy Campaign. More than 400 black women ran in the midterm elections, including 19 black women in Harris County, Texas, who all won their races to become judges, and Stacey Abrams, who is still fighting to ensure that every vote is counted in her historic race to become the first black woman governor in the U.S.

Can it be mere coincidence that as Michelle Obama recounts her journey to marriage, motherhood, and the White House, becoming a richer, bolder, fuller version of her herself in the process, that generations of women who most identify with her are finding their own voices and becoming a greater force with which to reckon as well?

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Launched halfway between Election Day and Thanksgiving, no sooner did Becoming’s Chicago tour begin than Oprah announced it as her next book club pick—as if it needed the boost. Amazon and Barnes and Noble were reporting record sales weeks before the official launch date and tickets for seats on the former first lady’s 10-city stadium tour (at as high as $ 2,750 apiece) were selling out fast.

Her current megastar incarnation represents quite a shift for a woman who once not only resisted the spotlight—she appeared to recoil from and even resent it. After all, pre-marriage, Michelle Robinson had always worked toward a very carefully crafted vision for her life, and while it included some ambitious and unconventional goals, becoming the first lady or a political spouse of any kind wasn’t among them.

The confident woman who leans a bare shoulder and bright-eyed smile directly into the camera on the cover of Becoming has come a long way from the guarded working mom in sensible heels who routinely declined requests for interviews and speaking opportunities during Barack’s early political life. Back then, she also refused to upend her career or her young daughters’ routines to accommodate her husband’s DC-based job demands or his larger ambitions, which she had reason to resist.

For starters, Michelle Obama had her own career aspirations, a distaste for politics, and a strong attachment to her Chicago hometown. Add to that the brazen fear that you could almost read in her watchful eyes: `What if something happens to Barack? What if my children lose their dad? What if this country doesn’t allow this historic moment to fully play out after all?’

Redefining the Role of a Lifetime

Once the Obama’s made history, there was no time for fear and no turning back. Instantly thrust onto the world stage and into a hailstorm of dizzying expectations and change, she packed up her Chicago dream house (along with her mom and her own dreams of remaining there) and took on the role of a lifetime, one she neither sought nor wanted.

Initially, there was a slight tightness to her composure and an awkwardness to her style. But soon she was an absolute natural, wowing interviewers, world leaders, and her own swelling base of fans.

Smart, self-effacing and impeccably prepared, it was her authenticity that most resonated with people—especially black women. Although she went to Princeton undergrad and Harvard Law School and had worked in well-paying jobs in white-shoe settings, she still bore the recognizable hallmarks of an unapologetic black girl deep-dipped in the instincts, values, adaptability, and resilience of Chicago’s hardworking South Side. Forget trying to hide it, she wore it like the Hope Diamond—with fist-bumping pride.

As Benilde Little wrote in The Meaning of Michelle, a 2017 anthology of essays edited by Veronica Chambers, “It’s hard being oneself under a microscope and the miracle of Michelle is that she seems to have always held on to her authentic self—with lots of her middle name, LaVaughn—holding center.”

While her popularity soared, reaching a feverish pitch toward the end of the Obama’s time in the White House, she was never without her detractors. While she honed her famous “When they go low, we go high” approach to dealing with them, in her earliest days in the spotlight, you could almost see her bracing herself for the ignorance, the disrespect, the inevitable attacks every black woman knows too well.

With trademark restraint, she addresses the issue head-on in her book’s preface this way:

Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an ‘angry black woman.’ I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them most – is it ‘angry’ or ‘black’ or ‘woman?’

In Becoming, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama finally takes back her life and tells her own story, transcending all labels and rendering all outside opinions moot.

Democrats don’t assume control of the House until January, but they’re already falling into factions. First come all the members, new and old, who vowed not to support Nancy Pelosi for speaker — mainly because they want new blood, and the longstanding top three House Dems are all 78 or 79. The rebels say they…Opinion | New York Post

Armed with subpoenas and a list of grievances, a handful of lawmakers will soon be leading investigations likely to make President Donald Trump’s life a lot tougher, now that Democrats have won a U.S. House of Representatives majority.

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We recently had a chance to sit down with Thomas Singleton, producer of BioWare’s Anthem, in order to get a deep dive look into the all-important classes available in the game. Not all javelin exosuits are created equal, it seems…

For those of you who haven’t been tracking Anthem on their mini-radar, it was announced two years ago and it’s…how can we put this delicately, not dissimilar to Destiny. At least on the surface.

When you stop judging the book by its cover – and all the in-game flying and verticality opens up – Anthem undeniably reveals itself to be so much more. In fact, we’d even go so far as to say it’s the sleeper hit of 2019.

The Anthem storyline will be continually added to, though no studio can produce content as quickly as we can consume it.

The Pillars of Anthem

According to Singleton, centres around three pillars. Firstly, while Anthem‘s deep customisation was built to let you express who you are as an individual, the wider adventure has been designed to be a shared experience. Co-optimal, if you will. Secondly, flying around with super heroic abilities is incredibly important, as are four vastly different suits that allow you and your co-op party to complement one another in a scrap and to shore up any class weaknesses.

Lastly, Singleton insists that Anthem aims to deliver a rich, ongoing and immersive storyline for players to get lost in. BioWare as a whole is quite proud of what they’ve been able to achieve in terms of narrative and it’s something this talented (yet recently troubled) team has been wanting to execute for a very long time. Better yet, this epic is promised to continue and evolve across the life of the product. The experience you clock in the opening launch weeks will represent just the tip of a longer spear… javelin. Whatever.

Each javelin will have some form of team support ability.

Speaking of those, in this universe the javelins represent the peak of mankind’s mechanical armour technology. If you want to get ahead in this dangerous world – or just prevent the indigenous wildlife from eating your eyes for Jujubes – you’ll need one. Javelins can be kitted out per the user’s requirements with three Gear slots – two offensive and one support. They’re cooldown based and mercifully require no additional ammo pickups. Sorry kleptomaniacs.

You should also know that each model comes with an Ultimate that effectively allows you to put the tiger balm on the jungle of this planet and the aggressive inhabitants who call it home. BioWare calls these “complete game-changers.”

The Ranger at work.

The Ranger

Your everygamer model is the Ranger. It’s a My First Javelin type deal with no great positives and no glaring negatives, but it’s versatile and a great way to learn the basics. In the lore of Anthem these are the frontline go-tos of the Sentinels (think: a royal guard). Their perfect balance of offence and defence is used to great effect while protecting the seat of Anthium inside the walls of Fort Tarsis (a fortified megastructure where the remnants of humanity are currently cowering).

It’s also worth noting that each of these exosuits comes with a few tools to start out with. The Ranger solves its most pressing problems via an electric mace to the face. Beyond that you can count on Gear like a grenade launcher, area-dominating frags, paralysing frost grenades or seeker variants that will do the aim-work for you.

Speaking of, the Ranger has a wrist launcher that coughs out homing missiles or poison darts that punish foes over time.

Surprisingly, the Ranger has decent support capabilities in the form of a Muster Point function. If your javelin buddies are within this AoE, their damage output will spike. Ultimate-wise, the Ranger unleashes holy hell with a swarm of missiles – either distributed on a gaggle of unfortunates or served up flambé style for one single big-bad.

The Colossus is your tank class.

The Colossus

On the topic of bigguns, say hello to the tank of the piece, the Colossus javelin. This model sacrifices speed and manoeuvrability for sheer amounts of firepower and a healthbar ’til next Tuesday. Boasting a shield and a penchant for close combat stomping, Anthem lore states that a Colossus javelin was favoured by the mythical General Tarsis herself (bookmark her as she’s an important part of the story).

Slip into this javelin and your wrist is going to spew mortars aplenty. These could be burst rounds that fan out across enemy lines, or high-ex ones that turn closely knit mobs into gazpacho. You can supplement those with a rocket launcher, a heavy cannon or especially toxic gamers can use an acid spitter that is a damage-over-time solution.

Alternatively, if you play with others you can use a taunt ability to draw aggro away from your buddies. Ultimate-wise, Colossi can fire out a round that could aptly be classified as a mini-nuke.

The Warlock, ahem, Storm is your mecha spellcaster.

The Storm

Players after a bit of style in their life (and who probably gravitated to Destiny‘s Hunter class) will be all about the Storm javelin. It’s the cape-loving Lando Calrissian of the crew that is actually an exosuit developed by the mysterious, not-well-liked mob called the Dominion. The tech in this thing allows the pilot or “freelancer” to harness their kinetic energy and tap into a higher power. Benefits include being able to hover longer than any other class, but the downshot is melee damage will drop you quick.

If you do insist on getting in close you can bust out a flash attack to disorient attackers and facilitate a tactical retreat. Your gear is going to be highly elemental too – lighting, ice, and fire, etc. Protecting your pals can be achieved using a Nexus Shield that lessens the cooldowns of anybody within range of it.

Yes, you can literally make everybody stay frosty. When it comes time to lay the smack down you’ll get to combine all of your elements into a three-punch combo of sorts that devastates anybody silly enough to be in front of it.

The high damage, low HP Interceptor is the rogue of the bunch.

The Interceptor

Last but not least we have the Interceptor, which was created by the shadowy Corvus spy organisation to serve in a scouting role. In terms of acrobatics and agility it’s (excuse the pun) leaps and bounds beyond all of the other models. It’s about specialised weaponry, too – close range attacks where you’ll need to hit and run as your attack power will be high but you’re also made out of balsa wood.

The tricks up your (literal) sleeve include dual blades, wrist-fired cluster mines on proximity fuses and enemy-seeking glaives. If that’s not doing it for you, use the Strike move which effectively turns you into a human projectile. When you’re not dancing a dervish of death you can help out your co-op collective by dismissing everybody’s status effects with a Rallying Cry. Wrapping up this suite of powers is an Ultimate that sends you berserk with your blades. It’s true ninja-on-red-cordial stuff.

When the demonstration wraps we’re pretty damn impressed with the direction Anthem is taking. And that direction, in short, is everywhere on the screen – the verticality and intensity of the combat is as dizzying as it is inciting. We simply can’t wait to personalise an exosuit to our own oddball tastes and to use it in a four-person squad of like-minded arse-kickers. A lot of Anthem is still under wraps, but the more we see of it the more it rocket boosts upward in our esteem.

The numbers are so high in some states that early voting may exceed total vote counts — including Election Day tallies — from four years ago.Politics

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Sony claims that the message bug that was capable of crashing PlayStation 4 console has already been addressed, just hours after news of the bug began to spread on Monday. In case you missed it, some PS4 players on Reddit this weekend discovered that receiving a specific text string through the messaging feature on the PS4 would cause their consoles to enter a crash loop that forced them to either factory reset or enter into safe mode.

Sony never officially acknowledged the existence of the bug, nor did it say anything on its blog or on Twitter about a potential fix, but the official PlayStation support account for the UK did tell one user on Monday that the company has “since fixed the issue,” while clarifying that the bug wasn’t capable of “bricking” PS4 consoles.

It’s only been two weeks, and already Bill Cosby wants to get out of jail.

Lawyers for the sexual predator once revered as ‘America’s dad’, who was sentenced to a three-to-ten-year stretch, have filed a motion seeking to have the April retrial thrown out.

Cosby’s lawyers cite a series of supposed errors on the part of Judge O’Neil in both the initial mistrial of 2017, the retrial this spring and the sentencing hearing late last month, according to a report on deadline.com.

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